San Francisco · Social, Community & Creative Leadership

Anne Carney

I'm the translation layer.

Twenty years turning complicated work into language people pass along, and building the communities that carry it. Red Bull film premieres, a 175M-reach media platform, a founder-grant engine that moved $2.75M, and enterprise AI shipped to teams who will never attend an AI conference.

I build audiences, and the machinery under them.

Social and community leadership across twenty years and eleven brands: strategy, production, publishing, analytics, events, and the AI systems that now carry the work. I teach the class, run the room, edit the video, and report the numbers.

San Francisco
San Francisco. Home base, and the market I build for.
Red Bull Media HouseGoProColumbia SportswearVail ResortsBrit + CoWalmartiHeartRadioOffice DepotRed Bull Media HouseGoProColumbia SportswearVail ResortsBrit + CoWalmartiHeartRadioOffice Depot
175M+ Cross-platform reach · Brit + Co
$2.75M Grants to founders · Selfmade
146M+ Earned media impressions
54K+ Instagram community · today
100+ People live-trained on AI agents
What I do

Eight disciplines, one operator who has run all of them end to end.

01 Editorial & Social Strategy

Vision, voice, calendars, and recurring franchises across eight platforms, from strategy through daily publishing.

02 Community Building

Working the comments, seeding discussion, and holding the frame, from 500-founder cohorts to a 54K brand audience.

03 Amplifier Networks

Creators, clippers, and the people who re-share. My collaboration program lifts reach 1.7x over solo posts.

04 Social-First Video

Created, directed, shot, and edited end to end: Reels, Shorts, TikTok, and live simulcast.

05 Translation & Social Listening

Turning technical work into plain language people repeat, and listening in Meltwater, Brandwatch, and SparkToro to find the conversation early.

06 Events & Programming

50+ events and keynote series. Speakers sourced, prepped, and carried to the stage.

07 Brand Partnerships

146M+ earned impressions with Walmart, Office Depot, Verizon, Snapchat, and Target.

08 Executive & Founder Voice

Founder ghostwriting, including a piece that ran in the New York Times under her byline.

Selected work

Nine chapters. Different rooms, same work.

  1. 01Eight platforms, one operator
  2. 02The accelerator
  3. 03The media platform
  4. 04Web3, acquired
  5. 05Brand studio
  6. 06iHeartRadio production
  7. 07Enterprise AI, shipped
  8. 08The director years
  9. 09The activation years
01 Now · 2023 to present Current role · B2B manufacturer

Eight platforms, one operator.

Social Media Marketing & AI Systems Lead

I run organic social end to end for a category-leading global B2B manufacturer: strategy, production, publishing, analytics, and executive reporting across Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, TikTok, Threads, and X. I launched TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Threads from zero, and revived dormant LinkedIn and YouTube channels.

Campaign work includes a 200+ sports-venue summer campaign and the social launch around a national CBS News feature. I create, direct, and edit the video myself, and hire crews when a shoot demands it.

The system underneath
A creator collaboration program that lifts reach 1.7x over solo posts and tops the reach table every month.
Question-hook testing that beats typical retention by 5 to 14 points.
Weekly executive reporting, so the number and the reason for it arrive together.
3x Organic views, one cycle
54K+ Instagram audience
3 Channels launched from zero
8 Platforms run end to end
02 The accelerator · 2019 to 2022 Selfmade · Brit + Co

500 women a cohort. I taught the class, ran the community, and shipped the swag.

Director of Community, Social & Social Impact

Selfmade is Brit + Co's ten-week accelerator for women founders. I co-created it, scaled it from a single course into an ecosystem: education, community, live events, and a founders fund, built on organic alone. I was program faculty, teaching the Week 7 social media class on a roster with Julia Hartz, Bozoma Saint John, Randi Zuckerberg, Stacy Brown-Philpot, and Kirsten Green.

I co-hosted live cohort sessions at 225 participants while simulcasting to Facebook Live, and ran the Circle community on a weekly analytics discipline. I led the scholarship operation with sponsor Office Depot: a $1.2M initiative that funded 600 founders inside a program that moved $2.75M in grants to more than 4,000 women.

Then I built the parts members kept: graduation certificates, a gold logo necklace shipped to every graduate, full swag kits fulfilled by 3PL, and a LinkedIn completion badge. I also ghostwrote for the founder, including a piece that ran in the New York Times under her byline, and drafted her recurring Entrepreneur column.

$2.75M Grants deployed
600 Founders funded, $1.2M program
500+ Per cohort · 60% women of color
NYT Ghostwriting, her byline
Fall 2020 faculty wall. I taught the Week 7 social media class
Fall 2020 faculty wall. I taught the Week 7 social media class.
Co-hosting a live cohort session: 225 participants, simulcast to Facebook
Co-hosting a live cohort session: 225 participants, simulcast to Facebook.
One cohort wall: 500+ women, 60% women of color
One cohort wall: 500+ women, 60% women of color.
My live-teaching rig: presentation on one screen, 500 faces on the other
My live-teaching rig: presentation on one screen, 500 faces on the other.
Enrollment creative for the ten-week program
Enrollment creative for the ten-week program.
Student story: Selfmade and proud
Student story: Selfmade and proud.
Graduation certificate I designed. Framed and shipped to every graduate
Graduation certificate I designed. Framed and shipped to every graduate.
Office Depot sponsored series: the first step of manifesting
Office Depot sponsored series: the first step of manifesting.
Producing the Facebook Live stream while admitting a 166-person waiting room
Producing the Facebook Live stream while admitting a 166-person waiting room.
Guest session with A.V. Perkins, co-hosting the room
Guest session with A.V. Perkins, co-hosting the room.
Running guest teacher programming in Circle: Payal Kadakia, Deepica Mutyala
Running guest teacher programming in Circle: Payal Kadakia, Deepica Mutyala.
Weekly community read: posts, engagement, and the spaces people actually used
Weekly community read: posts, engagement, and the spaces people actually used.
Guest teacher session creative: Alexa Von Tobel and Randi Zuckerberg
Guest teacher session creative: Alexa Von Tobel and Randi Zuckerberg.
Pitch Day, through a student's eyes
Pitch Day, through a student's eyes.
Big Idea Bootcamp: the free three-day lead magnet feeding the accelerator
Big Idea Bootcamp: the free three-day lead magnet feeding the accelerator.
Campaign line that carried the brand: Betting on myself
Campaign line that carried the brand: Betting on myself.
Pricing creative. A real product with real revenue, not a content play
Pricing creative. A real product with real revenue, not a content play.
A founder learns she won a scholarship, and posts the email
A founder learns she won a scholarship, and posts the email.
Merch line members wore
Merch line members wore.
Scholarship campaign story: I can. I will
Scholarship campaign story: I can. I will.
Graduate swag kit arriving in the wild
Graduate swag kit arriving in the wild.
Clubhouse funnel I built for Selfmade Club
Clubhouse funnel I built for Selfmade Club.
Author partnership activation from the program's event series
Author partnership activation from the program's event series.
03 The media platform · 175M reach Brit + Co

150,000 people took our classes free. I ran the campaign that brought them in.

Community, social & social impact

Brit + Co reached 175M+ people across platforms. I ran the weekly executive metrics reporting behind it: the July 2020 report I prepared tracks 1.66M Facebook followers, an 80M Pinterest audience, and 290M monthly Pinterest impressions. In March 2020 we opened the 120+ class creative library free to the world; 150,000 people joined, and I ran the campaign and its sponsor-funded extensions.

I opened the Brit + Co TikTok account in April 2020, when most publishers were still deciding whether to be there. Five weeks before TikTok announced its $50M Creative Learning Fund publicly, my partner deck was dated and in their hands, and Brit + Co became TikTok's inaugural education partner: forty videos in eight weeks, fully budgeted with paid support, a TikTok partner manager alongside, and the entire calendar, sourcing, and scheduling system mine. I taught my own class on the platform, worked UX with the RebelMouse web team, and helped port an acquired recipe-discovery product into the site.

150K Free-class signups, one campaign
290M Monthly Pinterest impressions
6.7M+ TikTok views, channel built from zero
120+ Classes marketed
Case study · TikTok from zero

Zero to 6.7M views, and the format call that got there.

0 → 6.7MViews on content published in my tenure
141Videos, April 2020 to December 2022
2.1MBest single video
7Videos over 100K views
84%Of all views from the format I moved the calendar onto

The DIY and how-to content the brand was known for averaged about 1,200 views a post. A pop-culture and celebrity format I tested carried roughly 84 percent of everything the channel ever did, and the top three videos alone account for 69.5 percent of total views. Reading that data and moving the calendar onto the winning format, while the brand's identity pointed the other way, is the decision that made the number.

The partnership came the same way. I built the case for TikTok as an education channel before TikTok had said so in public, and the deck was in their hands five weeks ahead of the announcement. Their inaugural education partnership ran forty videos in eight weeks and drove 523,459 views on its own.

Timeline
  • 7 Apr 2020First post. Channel at zero.
  • 23 Apr 2020Creative Learning Fund partner deck dated and delivered to TikTok.
  • 28 May 2020TikTok announces the $50M Creative Learning Fund publicly.
  • Summer 2020Forty videos in eight weeks under the partnership. 523,459 views in the run.
  • Dec 2022141 videos published. 6,760,887 views on that content.

View counts are lifetime totals read off the live profile in September 2026, on content published between April 2020 and December 2022.

The pandemic move: every class free. 150,000 people came
The pandemic move: every class free. 150,000 people came.
The 12-month editorial calendar behind the feed
The 12-month editorial calendar behind the feed.
Class marketing: iPad illustration in Procreate
Class marketing: iPad illustration in Procreate.
Brand voice in the feed: yes, I do marathons
Brand voice in the feed: yes, I do marathons.
Class marketing: digital pet illustration
Class marketing: digital pet illustration.
Class marketing: start somewhere
Class marketing: start somewhere.
Community engagement: what are you making this week?
Community engagement: what are you making this week?
04 Web3 · acquired BFF

A crypto community for women, built on Selfmade. Then Boss Beauties bought it.

Co-founding community & social lead

I helped launch and run BFF, the crypto and NFT education community built on the Selfmade cohorts, with NFT membership collectibles tied to events, education, and community development. Forbes covered the launch. Boss Beauties later acquired BFF to grow web3 education for women.

I live in that conversation myself, including a web3 founder fireside seat alongside Farcaster's Dan Romero.

BFF brand lockup and founder art
BFF brand lockup and founder art.
Big Sisters in Blockchain campaign art
Big Sisters in Blockchain campaign art.
Verified @AnneCarney_. A 2.1K-like post, and a web3 founder fireside seat alongside Farcaster founder Dan Romero
Verified @AnneCarney_. A 2.1K-like post, and a web3 founder fireside seat alongside Farcaster founder Dan Romero.
BFF MINTED, virtual event creative
BFF MINTED, virtual event creative.
05 Brand studio Brit + Co

Walmart, Target, Snapchat, and a Halloween party with Kristen Bell.

Brand activations & sponsored programs · 146M+ earned impressions

For Camp by Walmart I helped build a choose-your-own-adventure interactive shopping campaign with eko: viewers voted each craft forward inside the ad unit itself. For Hello Bello I produced the family Halloween event with Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, shot the photography, and I am cited in the published coverage. I also launched the brand's first TikTok creator partnership, which went viral and lifted product sales 15%.

The Office Depot Selfmade scholarship program is the one with a full final report. In fall 2020 Office Depot funded 200 Selfmade scholarships, and 451 women applied inside five days. The program earned 149.3M in press circulation, with coverage in Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Nasdaq, the LA Business Journal, and BlogHer. The eleven sponsored articles drew 2.2M views, ten times the 20,000-view benchmark; the media units ran at 1.7x the IAB click benchmark; and the social posts held 0.91 percent engagement against a 0.25 percent benchmark. In the exit survey, 88 percent of students said they would recommend Selfmade to another founder.

Partner roster across the years: Target (a Brit + Co line at retail plus a nationwide craft kit line), Snapchat Discover launch partner, Office Depot and H&R Block as Selfmade sponsors, Verizon, TaskRabbit, Netflix, Clorox, Crayola, Pinterest, Athleta, Michaels, Amazon, PepsiCo, L'Oréal, Sephora, Nissan, JSX, Ikea, and the Brit Make experiential studio and store in San Francisco.

146M+ Earned impressions
+15% Sales, first TikTok creator deal
Snapchat Discover launch partner
Target Retail product line
149MEarned circulation, Office Depot program
10xArticle benchmark, Office Depot program
Hello Bello Halloween with Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard. I produced the event and shot the coverage
Hello Bello Halloween with Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard. I produced the event and shot the coverage.
Office Depot sponsored series: founder finance pop quiz
Office Depot sponsored series: founder finance pop quiz.
Office Depot sponsored series: marketing is the stories you tell
Office Depot sponsored series: marketing is the stories you tell.
Camp by Walmart: the audience votes, bedazzle or glitter
Camp by Walmart: the audience votes, bedazzle or glitter.
The event film on Brit + Co's page: 18 minutes with Bell and Shepard
The event film on Brit + Co's page: 18 minutes with Bell and Shepard.
Camp by Walmart: choose your own DIY adventure ad unit
Camp by Walmart: choose your own DIY adventure ad unit.
Office Depot sponsored series: manifesting, with the co-brand lockup
Office Depot sponsored series: manifesting, with the co-brand lockup.
Sponsor swag landing with founders, tagged back to the brands
Sponsor swag landing with founders, tagged back to the brands.
06 Podcast production Brit + Co × iHeartRadio

Celebrity guests, weekly turnaround.

Production, media & talent coordination · Teach Me Something New

I helped produce the iHeartRadio podcast Teach Me Something New: media editing, clips, syndication, talent coordination, and the season's digital graphics. Guests I helped coordinate include Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis in the show's first joint interview, Instagram head Adam Mosseri, Bill Nye, Glennon Doyle, Rachael Ray, Daphne Oz, and Meena Harris.

In parallel I drafted founder thought leadership for the Entrepreneur column and executive social presence, and produced live audio programming with Entrepreneur editor in chief Jason Feifer.

Official season art, iHeartRadio
Official season art, iHeartRadio.
Live audio with Entrepreneur editor in chief Jason Feifer
Live audio with Entrepreneur editor in chief Jason Feifer.
07 AI systems · current role Current role · B2B manufacturer

Enterprise AI, deployed for people who will never attend an AI conference.

AI Systems Lead

I build and deploy no-code and low-code AI systems company-wide: Salesforce Agentforce, Einstein, and Claude through MCP and API connectors, sandbox-tested and QA'd before global rollout. The flagship is a partner-facing support agent built on the company's full technical knowledge base. I pitched it, piloted it, and live-trained 100+ certified partners, executives, and global colleagues on it.

I authored the internal Sales AI Playbook, built LLM workflows that took content production velocity to 10x, and consolidated a 6,000+ record Salesforce project archive into a unified go-to-market database and ecosystem map linking completed projects to the partner networks around them. Sales increased 14% in the first quarter following deployment.

100+ Live-trained on the agent
10x Content velocity
6,000+ Record GTM database
Salesforce Maps, the project and territory database I built
Salesforce Maps, the project and territory database I built.
Project Network 360, the partner support agent I pitched and piloted
Project Network 360, the partner support agent I pitched and piloted.
Forecasted project intelligence, part of the same system
Forecasted project intelligence, part of the same system.
Project-at-location view from the same build
Project-at-location view from the same build.
08 The director years · 2014 to 2017 Squaw Valley Institute

Disney's parks president, an ABC anchor, and a sold-out valley.

Director of Marketing & Communications

I marketed, produced, and photographed a speaker and film series that brought Bethany Hamilton, Sir Ken Robinson, Meg Crofton (President, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Operations), ABC's Bob Woodruff, Steven Kotler, world-circling sailor Laura Dekker, and 5 Gyres co-founder Anna Cummins to a mountain town, with youth programs wrapped around nearly every event.

I ran the membership program: five tiers from $100 to the $1,000 Society of Fellows, growing membership 40%. I built the Farm to Table dinner series with six executive chefs, and earned press from Moonshine Ink to the Sierra Sun. GivingTuesday work included a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation match.

50+ Events produced
+40% Membership growth
5 Membership revenue tiers
Gates Foundation match campaign
Bethany Hamilton, keynote and signing
Bethany Hamilton, keynote and signing.
Sir Ken Robinson with student program participants
Sir Ken Robinson with student program participants.
Meg Crofton, President, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Operations
Meg Crofton, President, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Operations.
Bob Woodruff event creative
Bob Woodruff event creative.
Press: It Ain't Pretty, the women of Mavericks premiere
Press: It Ain't Pretty, the women of Mavericks premiere.
The membership program I ran: five tiers, $100 to $1,000
The membership program I ran: five tiers, $100 to $1,000.
Farm to Table dinner in the meadow
Farm to Table dinner in the meadow.
TEDx, the McConkey story on stage
TEDx, the McConkey story on stage.
Woodruff on stage, full house
Woodruff on stage, full house.
Woodruff with the kids program
Woodruff with the kids program.
Laura Dekker with Red Bull athlete Cody LaPlante, youth session
Laura Dekker with Red Bull athlete Cody LaPlante, youth session.
Anna Cummins and 5 Gyres, event creative
Anna Cummins and 5 Gyres, event creative.
Steven Kotler, Bold
Steven Kotler, Bold.
Dr. Paul Cummins on 21st century education
Dr. Paul Cummins on 21st century education.
Kayvan Khalatbari on the cannabis industry and research
Kayvan Khalatbari on the cannabis industry and research.
Big wave athletes signing after the premiere
Big wave athletes signing after the premiere.
Athlete signing line, all ages
Athlete signing line, all ages.
A full house, again and again
A full house, again and again.
Season events rack card
Season events rack card.
Farm to Table: six executive chefs
Farm to Table: six executive chefs.
Farm to School fundraiser creative
Farm to School fundraiser creative.
Branded down to the glassware
Branded down to the glassware.
Panel programming
Panel programming.
Celebrity golf with the Olympic alpine ski team
Celebrity golf with the Olympic alpine ski team.
09 The activation years · 2004 to 2014 Red Bull · GoPro · Columbia

Where brands were built in the field, not the feed.

High Sierra Marketing · Columbia Sportswear · Vail Resorts

For Red Bull Media House's On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter I ran the premiere event series: theaters packed, athletes on stage, kids in campaign tees, and director Dana Brown doing Q&A in the aisles.

Across the roster: Columbia Sportswear's #Omniten ambassador adventures, where influencer and athlete partnerships drove 20% traffic growth and 15% retention gains; a GoPro parachute stunt landed on brand; Red Bull's Pain McShlonkey and the Cushing Crossing pond skim; and Envirolution youth sustainability programs with trashion runways and school activations I produced and photographed. I built social functions from scratch in this era. Audience up 41%, engagement up 30%.

+41% Audience, built from scratch
+30% Engagement lift
+20% Traffic from partnerships
Director Dana Brown, premiere Q&A
Director Dana Brown, premiere Q&A.
The campaign art, on kids' backs at the premiere
The campaign art, on kids' backs at the premiere.
Red Bull Pain McShlonkey, start arch
Red Bull Pain McShlonkey, start arch.
Cushing Crossing pond skim, shot from the water line
Cushing Crossing pond skim, shot from the water line.
GoPro parachute stunt, landing on brand
GoPro parachute stunt, landing on brand.
Columbia Sportswear #Omniten
Columbia Sportswear #Omniten.
Envirolution trashion show: water is the driving force
Envirolution trashion show: water is the driving force.
Envirolution booth, student-run
Envirolution booth, student-run.
Full house, red curtains, the film about to roll
Full house, red curtains, the film about to roll.
Athlete meet and greet, poster and tee in hand
Athlete meet and greet, poster and tee in hand.
Costume race, mid-chaos
Costume race, mid-chaos.
#Omniten ambassador crew on the river
#Omniten ambassador crew on the river.
Festival yoga, crowd work
Festival yoga, crowd work.
Trashion runway, recycled mermaids
Trashion runway, recycled mermaids.
Green Team runway at the base of the mountain
Green Team runway at the base of the mountain.
Youth discussion circles
Youth discussion circles.
Message in a Bottle, school activation
Message in a Bottle, school activation.
Receipts

Bylines, press, and a public record.

How the work gets made

Genuinely hands-on, across the whole stack.

AI, agents & building

Claude with the Anthropic API and MCP, Claude Code, Salesforce Agentforce and Einstein, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Replit, Cursor, v0, GitHub.

Creative & video

Final Cut Pro, CapCut, Descript, Adobe, Procreate, Canva, Midjourney, Veo, Sora, Runway, ElevenLabs, for end-to-end production.

Social & community

Sprout Social, Hootsuite, Meta Business Suite, YouTube Studio, Circle, Mighty Networks, Slack, Discord, Substack, eko interactive video.

Listening & analytics

Meltwater, Cision, Brandwatch, SparkToro, Similarweb, GA4, Semrush.

Paid media

Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, X, Pinterest, Snapchat, and Hulu Ads.

Web, commerce & lifecycle

Salesforce, HubSpot, WordPress, RebelMouse, Thinkific, Stripe, Shopify, 3PL fulfillment.

The path

Twenty years, one throughline.

2023 to Present
Global B2B manufacturer, name on request · Social Media Marketing & AI Systems Lead
2019 to 2022
Brit + Co · Director of Community, Social & Social Impact
2018 to 2019
ICR (Integrated Corporate Relations) · Digital Marketing Lead
2017 to 2018
UC Berkeley Executive Education · Digital Marketing Lead
2014 to 2017
Squaw Valley Institute · Director of Marketing & Communications
2012 to 2014
High Sierra Marketing · Director of Marketing, Social Media · Red Bull, GoPro, Vail Resorts
2010 to 2012
Columbia Sportswear · Marketing Specialist, #Omniten Team
2004 to 2010
Vail Resorts / Specialty Sports Venture · Corporate Management & Marketing
2002 to 2004
Marin Theatre Company · Marketing & Operations Manager

Education

  • UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
    Technology Leadership Program
  • University of Nevada, Reno
    Psychology

Certifications

  • Salesforce Agentforce & Einstein
  • Anthropic Academy
    Claude API and Claude Code
  • SLII Management Leadership Program
Let's make something
people actually want.
annecarney.amc@gmail.com
(818) 800-0369 LinkedIn San Francisco

Every metric on this page is drawn from platform analytics, published coverage, or program records, and holds up in the interview. Additional press, campaign artifacts, and an alumni program film are available on request. Anne Carney · San Francisco.

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